No, my blog hasn’t been hacked, and Earthly Delights is, despite the lurid cover, relevant to a food blog. Bear with me while I explain… A year or two ago, when my husband had just finished reading the latest book …
Category: Reviews
Review: Roman Cookery – Ancient Recipes for Modern Kitchens, by Mark Grant
Let’s face it – no cookbook collection can possibly considered complete until you have good recipes for baked flamingoes, lark’s tongues, and stuffed dormice. What modern kitchen is without such vital and everyday ingredients? Having said that, this cookbook will…
Review: Less Meat, More Veg, by Rachel de Thample
You can’t imagine how good our house smells right now. There’s just something about the smell of any kind of stock cooking that makes a house smell wonderful. Add to that the smell of stewed apples and melted chocolate and…
Food on TV: Heston Blumenthal’s Victorian Feast
Oh my. Am I the last food-obsessed person in the world to discover Heston Blumenthal’s extraordinary feasts? How have I missed this wonderful culinary insanity for so long?
Review: Serving Up the Harvest, by Andrea Chesman
I bought this book a few years ago, when I discovered the wonderful world of vegetable boxes delivered to your door and was trying to work out what to do with all those brassicas (cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli and brussels sprouts…
Review: Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Carême, by Ian Kelly
Subtitled A biography with recipes, this is the biography of Marie-Antoine Carême, a man from extremely poverty-stricken origins who grew to become a celebrity chef – he cooked, at one time or another, for Napoleon, for the Prince Regent, for…
Review: Cook Simple, by Diana Henry
Is it even possible to have a single favourite cookbook? A specialised cookbook about chocolate is in a whole different category to a culinary encyclopedia or a baking book or an Italian cookbook… and I have favourites in all these…